Flush wall receptacle plate



Patented May 15, 1923.

PATENT o 1,455,399 FFlcE.-

WILLIAM EfxEAvANEY, or WATEEBURY, coNNEcrIcUT, AssIGNoR ro THE CHASE COMPANIES, INC., or wATEEEUEY,-co1\TNEcTIcUT, A oomsoImTIolw.V

FLUSH WALL EEcErrAcLE PLATE.

Application fledMarcli 13, 1920. Serial No. $65,392.

T o all lwhom t may cemcern:

Be it known that I, `W1LLIAM R. KEAVA- NEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in yFlush Wall Receptacle Plates; and I do hereby declare the following, with the accompanying drawings and the characters be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, 1n-` Fig. 1, a View in elevation Vof a wall receptacle-plate embodying my invention.

Fig. 2, a view thereof with the door removed.

Fig. 3, an enlarged broken sectional View on the line 3-3 of Figurel.

Fig. 4, an enlarged detached broken edge View of the door, showing the reduction of its hinge-leaf in thickness.

F ig. 5, a corresponding view'showing thev hinge-leaf as bent in to its final form over the integral pintle of the plate, the pintle being shown in transverse section.

My invention rela-tes to an improved electric installation Hush wall receptacle-plate of the type having a door, the object being tov produce a. fixture having the minimum number of parts, presenting a finished appearance, and reducing the cost to the minimum.

VWith these ends in view, my invention consists in an electric installation flush wall receptacle-plate having an integral pintle extending across the upper portion of the' clearance-notch of its service-opening for v the suspension of the door provided for closing the opening.

My invention further consists in certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I produce an integral pintle 4 at the time o-f punching or piercing the rectangular clearance-notch 5 leading out of the upper end of the relatively large circular service-opening 6 formed in the rectangular flush wall receptacle-plate 7 which, as shown, has bevelled edges 8 and is provided directly above and below the said service- `opening with counter-sunk screw-holes 9 and 10 located in the major axis of the p plate. The said pintle 4 at the time of its when taken in connection of reference marked thereon, .tof

.to permit the door production, is set back from the face of the plate 7 for a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the circular door or clof sure 11 so that when the same is in its closed position, its outer `face will lie in the plane of the face of the plate. In setting thel pintle back, as described, in this manner, its ends are virtually extended to a slight degrec beyond the side-walls of the clearancei notch 5 yand appear upon the face-of the plate 7 in the form o-f indentations 12. In

producing the integral pintle 4, its edges shown inFigure 5, so as to swing freely upon 1t. The said door is vformed at its upper end are rounded off, as

with an integral rectangular hinge-leaf 13 adapted to fit closely into the clearancelnotch 5, and has its inner face cut away, as

shown 'by Figure 4, to reduce its thickness to about one-half the thickness of the. door proper, whereby it is easily bent .rearward and downward to embrace the pintle 4, as shown in Figure 5. This reduction of the metal permits the leaf,to be sharply bent, vas at 14, so as to bring its upper end close to the top wall 15 of the notch 5 when the door is in its closed position, as shown in` Figure l.

I claim:

yThe combination with a flush-wall re-4 ceptacle-plate formed with inservice-opening, a rectangular clearance-notch leading out of the upper end of the saidopenin'g, and an integral the side walls of the said vnotch and positioned vtherein to form a clearance spacebetween it and the upper wallv of the said notch, of a door for the said opening formed at` its upper yend with a hin e-leaf closing the said notch and having t e upper por-` tion of its rear face cut away to substantially half the thickness of thesaidv door, to

permit the said leaf to be bent rearwardly and downwardly to embracer the said pintle, which is set back from the rear face of the said plate for a distance equal to the thickness o-f the main portion of the door and the lower portion of its hinge-leaf. v

In testimony whereof, I have signed `this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM R. KEAVANEY. Witnesses:

' CHARLES A. CURTISS,

L. L. CADWELL, Jr.

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